Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-13
GLAD GREETINGS.
The Presidents Popularity
Openly Evinced.
HE ARRIVES AT KANSAS CITY
A Surging ThrOng Awaiting Him
At the DepOt-An Accident
Mars the Days Pleasure.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
OMAHA, Neb., October 12.-The
southwark flight OF the Presidential
party began at Minneapolis last even
ing. The ladies of the party retired
early, but the President and male
members of the escort sat for couple
of hours smoking cigars and compar-
ing experiences. The President was
frequently summoned to the platform
during the evening to receive the
greetings of the country people, who
seemed to be wide awake all along
the line. Crowds of country people
gathered at the stations. Although
the train did not stop the President
stepped to the platform and acknowl-
edged the salutes.
AT OMAHA.
When the station was reached here,
just at sunrise, carriages were
found in waiting, as were also a
military brass band and the people.
A rapid drive of five minutes brought
the visitors to the Corn Palace, whose
turrets were at that moment taking an
early bath of golden sun. The Corn
Festival ended, in fact, last week, but
everything has been kept in place for
the Presidents visit, and all the at
tendants were on hand to do the hon.
ors of the occasion. Courteous COM
mitteemen escorted each member of
the party and pointed out the curiosi-
ties.
MRS. CLEVELAND PLEASED.
Mrs. Cleveland was delighted with
everything she saw and turned again
and again to examine more closely
some unique fabrication of corn stalks,
husks, ears or kernels. From this
place the visitors were conducted
through the town and under the mann
moth triumphal arches still spanning
the chief thoroughfares.
STOP AT ST. JOE.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, October r.
Artillery, church bells and steam
whistles heralded the Presidential
party's arrival at the st. Joe depot,
and the town was jammed with
natives and strangers. The Mayor and
a reception committee received the
President and escorted him to the
carriage. Tie procession then started
up town. A stop was made for q
ment at the---6entrai Suumse,
where the pupils of the Convent
of the Sacred Heart handed
the President beautiful floral
flag while those of the public school
gave Mrs. Cleveland q costly silver
basket filed with roses. The streets
were handsomely decorated and the
crowd was for the most part orderly,
except on the return to the depot,
when crush, caused by the frantic
attempt OF thousands of people to get
into close quarters with the President,
made it a work of pain and danger for
his fellow excursionists to make their
way to the train. The committee and
police rendered them but little aid.
| ARRIVAL At KANSAS CITY.
The train arrived at Kansas City ON
time at S;l5, At the depot and for
blocks around an immense throng had
gathered and roar of cheers went up
as the train came to stop and the
party emerged. The procession
| quickly made its way to the Coates
House, where the guests retired for q
brief rest. The police arrangements
in the streets were admirable and the
throng was well kept back from the
carriage. The Trades display mar
ched past the hotel. soon after the
arrival of the party.
LEvEE HELD.
Shortly after o'clock the President
and his wife appeared in the parlors,
and for an hour received members of
the reception committee and their
friends.
| A DISASTROUS ACCIDENT.
| What might have been very SER
Gus accident occurred Just before the
party reached the hotel at Ninth and
Broadway. Two cable trains were
standing close to each other. The
cable had broken during the day and
the strands wrapped with wire. The grip
of the second train became entangled
in the threads and, starting up, crowd
ed into the first train. The Presi-
dents carriage was twenty feet be-
yound the track when this happened, /,
or else his safety and that of his wife
would have been imperiled. Of the
injured, II. c. Harding will lose both
legs; James johnson (colored) the
lower portion of his right leg; Private
Wilson of the Independent Guards
had his head badly cut, and +. w.
Illgen suffered severe bruises.
A HANDSOME TRIBUTE.
| Among the souvenirs of the st.
Joseph's visit which Mrs. Cleveland
brought away was one found in her
car after the train had left. 1t was an
elegant memorial satchel, on which
was printed: "To Mrs. Frances Fol-
some Cleveland. The st. Elizabeth
Society greets you with salutation Of
benediction on this October II, 1897"
Following this was legend stating
that the donors deemed it not inap-
propriate on this occasion to point to
the parallelism OF the circumstances
of Mrs. Cleveland's present state with
that OF the society's patron-Elizabeth
Queen of Hungary-which made that
queen the prototype OF society. Culled
in the first flower of her youth and
beauty to preside over a nation, she
was distinguished even beyond her
queenliness by her simplicity, be-
nightly and charity. 1t closed with an
expression of hope that Mrs. Cleve-
lands life, like that of Queen Eliza-
beth, might be halo of virtue and
L l.. u. IL.